Empowering EAL Learners – Pathways into the Real World
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Andragogical Knowledge
These principles are suggested by Malcolm Knowles:
- Adults need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction (diagnose & evaluate own pronunciation).
- Experience, including mistakes, provides the basis for the learning activities (their own speaking & listening with people).
- Adults are most interested in learning what is relevant to their job or personal life (being able to verbalise is most relevant).
- Adult learning is problem-centred rather than content-oriented (include pair/group risk–taking activities to challenge them).
Being understood as you speak is a foundational requirement to integrating and being valued in every community. Therefore, this presentation/workshop focuses on making the Aussie sounds correctly and using many different activities related to their everyday lives.
Presenter: Zoe Repse
Teaching since 1979 across primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. A dedicated workshop facilitator and speaker, passionate about engaging EAL and literacy learners within the community and author of English skills books.
Focused on EAL learners to motivate and boost confidence in casual conversations with native speakers, through teaching Australian expressions, pronunciation, intonation, and colloquialisms. Emphasising how closely reading and spelling are connected to the pronunciation of Australian phonemes.
